I just started using vpopmail just joined this list. Please accept
my apologies if this is a FAQ, but I didn't find anything in the
archives.
Here's my situation:
I found vpopmail while researching ways to use non-system users for
mail, primarily as a way around OpenBSD's 8-character limit
At 12:27 PM -0500 2/23/01, Kari Suomela wrote:
Friday February 23 2001 11:34, Kit Halsted wrote to All:
KH out of 6 consultants, but one guy used telnet Pine extensively
KH on
KH our old system really wants that functionality. I'm thinking
KH it'll
KH be fine, just set him up for ssh
/23/01, Ken Jones wrote:
Kit Halsted wrote:
Hi-
I'm using Qmail 1.03 vpopmail 4.9.6-1 on OpenBSD 2.8 -stable.
Everything works as expected I'm a happy camper. Of course, there
is one problem, or I wouldn't be writing...
I have virtualized our primary domain so shell users won't
Message-
From: Kit Halsted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:25 AM
To: Ken Jones
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...
Sorry, I really should have been more clear. Here's what I'm
looking for:
A user, let's call him
-0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kit Halsted [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test-[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
--
Thanks,
-Kit
?)
(64.2.75.98)
by mail.kithalsted.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2001 15:36:48 -
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.kithalsted.com
Message-Id: p04320402b6f23f4f3ea7@[10.0.1.39]
X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh!
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:27:32 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kit Halsted
-default file, and it won't work
properly. You can add them both there, but it will cause problems
in the long run.
Kit Halsted wrote:
Sorry for the reposted question, but I'm still hoping somebody might
be able to clue me in...
I'm running Qmail 1.03, FastForward 0.51, vpopmail (4.9.8-1, I
: 987226408.765946 end msg 889609
Apr 14 01:33:28 yabox qmail: 987226408.782720 delivery 1255: failure:
Sorry,_no_
mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Kit Halsted wrote:
Thanks, Ken. Any pointers on how to set up the system aliases without
messing things up for vpopmail? (FQDN is in locals, DN
At 9:11 PM + 4/17/01, Jeremy Gray wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a vpopmail, qmail/pop3d or tcpserver issue
=(, but when a user sends mail remotely via vpopmail (running
qmail-pop3d), the "recieved from:" field in the headers shows the
users local hostname/ISP IP rather than our server.
At 12:27 AM + 4/18/01, Jeremy Gray wrote:
(What's up with your attributions? I wrote the double-quoted stuff.)
A- If you really want to hide that information, use FirstClass on a
Mac or NT box. Or better yet, QuickMail 1.x with StarNine Internet
Gateway.
B- Judging from a quick extremely
I had a nasty embarrassing experience today that I'm still trying
to figure out. I put together a list of email addresses for all the
computer geeks I know, did the following:
#vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] password
#cd /home/vpopmail/domains/kithalsted.com/geeks
#pico .qmail
I then added the
92:
msg 889614 t
o local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 22 19:11:33 yabox qmail: 987981093.202020 status: local 2/10 remote 3/20
Apr 22 19:11:33 yabox qmail: 987981093.202480 end msg 889612
:
-Original Message-
From: Kit Halsted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 10:18 PM
for Macintosh!
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:00:58 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kit Halsted [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test .qmail group
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed
x-flowedtest
/x-flowed
Thanks,
-Kit
-Original Message-
From: Kit Halsted [mailto:[EMAIL
? Perhaps the
Delivered-To or Received: headers could provide some information.
-Original Message-
From: Kit Halsted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Mail Bomb
At 1:04 AM -0600 4/23/01, Chris Bolt wrote:
Logs
At 10:16 PM +1200 7/5/01, Gordon Smith wrote:
Has anyone experienced problems with iMac users authenticating?
I'm on a PowerBook G4, but many of my users are on iMacs. No problems here.
Seems to be a machine fault rather than mail client.
Can you explain why you think that?
Users with IE 5.02
Is anybody using qmail-smtpd-auth
http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ with vpopmail?
There's documentation there for use with vpopmail, but it mentions
v3.4.11k, which sounds a lot older than the 4.9.8 I'm running. I'm
curious as to whether anyone is using SMTP-AUTH with a
Thank you, Bill Ken. Now to figure out how to run smtp as vpopmail...
-Kit
At 6:04 PM -0500 7/31/01, Ken Jones wrote:
Bill Shupp wrote:
on 7/31/01 4:54 PM, Kit Halsted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake:
Is anybody using qmail-smtpd-auth
http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth
My vpopmail server is very slow to connect right now. I have
customers calling the office bitching I can see it when I try to
check my mail. Unfortunately, I'm clueless as to how to troubleshoot
it, much less fix it. Using ssh to connect to the box works
instantly. Telnetting to port 110
Hey, maybe I can compound my error by sending this to the wrong list...
Below is a message I sent to the qmail-smtp-auth list. I'm having
trouble setting up smtp-auth with vpopmail my brain is mush. Any
help would be greatly appreciated, I'd like to get this server and
another one just like
to figure this out the brain-donor admins at my ISP
have decided that blocking port 80 is a good thing to do in the face
of the nimda worm...
Thanks,
-Kit
- Original Message -
From: Kit Halsted [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:43 PM
Subject
Sorry if I'm flogging a dead horse, but I can't seem to get this
running. Can anyone walk me through the steps required to use the
SMTP-AUTH patch with an existing qmail/vpopmail installation? Or do I
need to reinstall everything from scratch? Running OpenBSD 2.9-stable
if it matters.
Hmmm...
I'm trying to run the patch from Krzysztof Dabrowski, along with his
MD5 password utility. Are you guys both running Mrs. Brisby's patch?
Most importantly for me, is anyone successfully using CRAM-MD5
SMTP-AUTH with vpopmail? Eudora doesn't do LOGIN or PLAIN I'll
start using Lookout
I was once asked to fix a Eudora Internet Mail Server installation
that was freezing POP clients. Every client in the office froze while
trying to download mail. Turned out that they were all on a mailing
list someone had sent a mail to that list with a blank body. They
were also all using
Long day...
At 9:44 AM -0500 9/10/02, Ken Jones wrote:
On Monday 09 September 2002 09:01 pm, Kit Halsted wrote:
One of my clients has been running a server with the relaymailfrom
hack for years. I've been telling them for as long as I've been
working with them that they would get
Howdy folks:
Looks like my boss may be getting a Big New Client with new
requirements for email. Big New Client wants a global address book
the ability to add delete users on their own. No problem, I say,
I'll set up LDAP qmailadmin. Then it hits me: I have no idea how I
can automatically
At 1:46 PM -0200 10/24/02, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi John,
version 5.2.1
no extra compile option.
TIA, Paulo Henrique
Somebody flame me if I'm wrong, but IIRC vpopmail 5.2.1 will not work
with SMTP-AUTH Eudora. Eudora requires CRAM-MD5, so vpopmail 5.3.6
looks like
Apologies for such a lame request, but does anyone have a working
startup script for qmail/vpopmail with SMTP-AUTH under daemontools
for a BSD/non-rc.d system kicking around?
My big mail/web/primary DNS server died (very thoroughly) yesterday
I had to rebuild it differently from the way it
$NOFILESGID -lqmail.iswest.net 0 smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd qmail.iswest.net /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
/usr/bin/true 21
-Original Message-
From: Kit Halsted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 11:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [vchkpw] Supervise startup
Good thing I stopped shaving my head, else I'd have no hair to pull out...
Trying to get SMTP-AUTH working with qmail-1.03, the 0.30 patch from
elysium.pl, daemontools, vpopmail 5.3.9 on OpenBSD 3.2. Tried lots
of different stuff last night, nothing worked. Currently, my
Thanks for the pointers, everybody...
At 11:22 PM -0500 12/3/02, Kit Halsted wrote:
...
Tried 0.31 tonight, no luck. Maybe my other patches are interfering?
I'll try it at home as the only patch see how that goes.
2.) Try to run qmail-smtpd as root. Just for testing, but this avoids
!) let you know if I uncover any OpenBSD-specific
issues.
Thanks,
-Kit
Matt
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 12:23 AM, Kit Halsted wrote:
Thanks for the pointers, everybody...
At 11:22 PM -0500 12/3/02, Kit Halsted wrote:
...
Tried 0.31 tonight, no luck. Maybe my other patches are
interfering
At 8:14 PM +0100 12/19/02, Marcin Soltysiak wrote:
Hi all,
I got problem with Outlook Express and qmail+vpopmail+courier-imap.
Ocasionally it happens that new message is marked as Message is no longer
available and then the on;ly way to read it is to get via other reader.
Any hints?
Umm,
I could be wrong here, but both of these sound like reverse-DNS
problems to me. Check that reverse-DNS (IP to name, rather than name
to IP) is correctly set up see if that doesn't make the problem go
away. (Apologies if I'm wrong here, suffering from long-term
sleep-dep...)
HTH,
-Kit
At 3:35 PM
Okay, I've been trying for years to get vchkpw/vpopmail to work with
SMTP-AUTH CRAM-MD5. Thanks to recent development, it's apparently
possible now. After beating my head against it for 2 hours this
morning, I decided to turn to this list for help...
Then, I solved my own damn problem by
At 3:36 PM + 3/10/04, Roger Lipscombe wrote:
Hi,
I'm installing vpopmail on a new system, and I've got a question about SMTP
AUTH. I want to allow selective relaying, and I can't use SMTP-after-POP
(and frankly, it strikes me as a hack, anyway).
It's pretty hackish, but better than nothing.
Hey:
A little OT, but I'm looking for a last-minute sanity check before I
move a whole bunch of domains from my old server to the shiny new box
I've been prepping for weeks...
Here is what I plan on doing:
vadddomain each domain on the new server
Stop qmail-smtpd on the old server
Stop POP
Wanadoo is sort of a pet peeve of mine. I don't interact with them
much, but every time I do it's a big headache. They don't seem to
care much about standards only seem to be good at breaking things
in interesting ways. In my experience, at least, they make AOL look
competent.
-Kit
At 1:05
Howdy Folks:
I've just been asked to either set up a new server or add some
services to an existing server. The current server runs netqmail 1.05
+ SMTP-AUTH 0.42 vpopmail 5.4.2 on OpenBSD 3.5. The client's
requirements are as follows:
-Virus checking
-Spam filtering
-Quota limitations
Howdy folks:
I'm having a bit of a problem here, one that will turn into a HUGE
problem come Monday morning...
I have a mail server running qmail (netqmail 1.05) + vpopmail (5.5.0)
+ SqWebMail (3.6.2). We're using it for a single client, they
wanted their primary domain changed today. I
No answers for you on that error, other than wondering why
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw is appended to your hostname, but I do have
some comments about your very, very broken anti-spam system:
You send replies to mail you think is spam. How much spam do you get
that has a legitimate From: header?
Thanks so much, Ken. Not sure how I missed that... Anyway, you're a
lifesaver my other questions can now wait until Monday.
-Kit
At 5:54 PM -0500 6/12/04, Ken Jones wrote:
...
Check /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/hostname
...
--
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
Hey folks:
Looks like spam is being relayed through my big server. Not sure how
they're doing it; I'm using SMTP-AUTH (0.4.2) it seems to work
properly. Any clues would be appreciated I'm happy to show whatever
files people want to see, but for now I'm going on the assumption
that someone
At 2:21 PM -0500 6/28/04, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:13 pm, Kit Halsted wrote:
Hey folks:
Looks like spam is being relayed through my big server. Not sure how
they're doing it; I'm using SMTP-AUTH (0.4.2) it seems to work
properly. Any clues would be appreciated I'm
Thanks so much, Jeremy!
At 3:17 PM -0500 6/28/04, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:40 pm, Kit Halsted wrote:
if the server in question is the MX for kithalsted.com, it appears to be
fine,
It's the secondary for that domain, actually.
ok.
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